Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported outages and performance degradation and, as it drops the ball, Cursor is waiting to pick it up.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: For over six hours, the site’s functions were reportedly degraded, with a nearly 20% error rate worldwide.
- Fact 2: More broadly, the platform has suffered 257 outages over the past year, a recent analysis by LeadDev states.
- Fact 3: According to GitHub’s own metrics, some 180 million developers use its platform as of last October.
- Fact 4: The platform, which was founded in 2007 and acquired by Microsoft in 2012, continues to be the largest source-code host in the world.
For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported outages and performance degradation and, as it drops the ball, Cursor is waiting to pick it up.
The AI startup, which is now officially a part of SpaceX, launched Origin this week — a new code-hosting platform designed to do all of the things that developers typically use GitHub for: collaboratively work on codebases, browse and edit them, handle pull-requests (edits made by others asking to be added to the main codebase), and store them in repositories. This seems like a natural next step for Cursor, whose primary focus until this point has been selling automated web development services through its AI Code Editor. Cursor has also said that “agent native” features will soon be available for Origin, although hasn’t shared many details yet.
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Original source: TechCrunch
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